Test 1 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous
«it bit me, so it's poisonous right?» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: bite, be · To what, where: me
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 188 «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: «it bit me, so it's poisonous right?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 bit | punct |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bit | nsubj |
| 3 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bit | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 right | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 right | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 right | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 right | cop |
| 9 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 right | amod |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bit | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 bit | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 bit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite in a quote | past | it | me | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | it | right property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Right, biting means it is poisonous to eat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 3 biting | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 biting | punct |
| 3 | biting | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 poisonous | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 poisonous | cop |
| 7 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 eat | mark |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 poisonous | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | gerund | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | it | poisonous property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
If it bites or stings you, it is venomous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 bites | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bites | nsubj |
| 3 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 venomous | advcl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 stings | cc |
| 5 | stings | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bites | conj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 stings | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bites | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 venomous | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 venomous | cop |
| 10 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite a condition, not said to happen | present | it | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sting | present | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | it | venomous property | tree rules |
Option 3
Only frogs bite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 frogs | advmod |
| 2 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bite | nsubj |
| 3 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | frogs | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Biting means harmless
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Biting | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | gerund | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | harmless property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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